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Tina Andrews is a Actor and Writer American born on 23 april 1951 at Chicago (USA)
Tina Yvonne Andrews (born April 23, 1951) is an American actress, television producer, screenwriter, author and playwright. She is known for writing the TV mini-series, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000), which was the first time that the Jefferson-Hemings relationship had been explored on TV, and with Hemings portrayed as a fully realized woman. In 2001, Andrews was the first African American to win the Writers Guild of America award for Original Long Form, for her script for this mini-series. Andrews had earlier explored her interest in Hemings with a play, The Mistress of Monticello, which was read at a workshop in Chicago in 1985.
She spent many years acting in such series as Days of Our Lives, where she played the character Valerie Grant from 1975 to 1977. Her character was part of the first interracial romance ever shown on daytime television. She also acted in the influential TV mini-series, Roots (1977), as Aurelia, the girlfriend of the character Kunta Kinte.
From this role, she met and became professional partners with Alex Haley, the author of the book on which it was based and the screenplay for the series. Haley hired Andrews to work with him on the miniseries Alex Haley's Great Men of African Descent, which aired on PBS. Haley also mentored Andrews' literary work.
Andrews is married to Stephen Gaines, an award-winning producer in theatre, and documentary filmmaker.
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Birth name Tina Yvonne Andrews
Nationality USA
Birth 23 april 1951 (73 years) at Chicago (USA)
Awards Writers Guild of America Award
Nationality USA
Birth 23 april 1951 (73 years) at Chicago (USA)
Awards Writers Guild of America Award
Tina Yvonne Andrews (born April 23, 1951) is an American actress, television producer, screenwriter, author and playwright. She is known for writing the TV mini-series, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000), which was the first time that the Jefferson-Hemings relationship had been explored on TV, and with Hemings portrayed as a fully realized woman. In 2001, Andrews was the first African American to win the Writers Guild of America award for Original Long Form, for her script for this mini-series. Andrews had earlier explored her interest in Hemings with a play, The Mistress of Monticello, which was read at a workshop in Chicago in 1985.
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Tina Yvonne Andrews was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She attended New York University, where her major studies were in Drama.She spent many years acting in such series as Days of Our Lives, where she played the character Valerie Grant from 1975 to 1977. Her character was part of the first interracial romance ever shown on daytime television. She also acted in the influential TV mini-series, Roots (1977), as Aurelia, the girlfriend of the character Kunta Kinte.
From this role, she met and became professional partners with Alex Haley, the author of the book on which it was based and the screenplay for the series. Haley hired Andrews to work with him on the miniseries Alex Haley's Great Men of African Descent, which aired on PBS. Haley also mentored Andrews' literary work.
Andrews is married to Stephen Gaines, an award-winning producer in theatre, and documentary filmmaker.
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Carny (1980)
, 1h47Directed by Robert Kaylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Circus films
Actors Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson, Meg Foster, Kenneth McMillan, Fred Ward
Roles Sugaree
Rating63%
Frankie (Gary Busey) and Patch (Robbie Robertson) are friends who work for the Great American Carnival, a small-time carnival that tours the South. Frankie does an act as The Mighty Bozo, a character who sits in a dunk tank insulting the crowd, while Patch takes the money, points out the next mark to milk of his money to the Bozo, and distributes the balls outside. Patch is also the show's "adjuster," hence his carny name, working with the owner of the carnival, Heavy St. John (Kenneth McMillan) negotiating deals with local officials and representatives of the local underworld to keep the show open.
Conrack (1974)
, 1h46Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Antonio Fargas, Hume Cronyn, Tina Andrews
Roles Mary
Rating72%
The story follows a young teacher, Pat Conroy (played by Jon Voight), in 1969 assigned to isolated "Yamacraw Island" off the coast of South Carolina and populated mostly by poor black families. He finds out that the children as well as the adults have been isolated from the rest of the world and speak a dialect called Gullah, with "Conrack" of the novel's title being the best they can do to pronounce his last name. The school has only two rooms for all grades combined, with the Principal (Madge Sinclair) teaching grades one through four and Conroy teaching the higher grades. Conroy discovers that the students aren't taught much and will have little hope of making a life in the larger world.
Born Innocent (1974)
, 1h38Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, Women in prison films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Linda Blair, Richard Jaeckel, Kim Hunter, Allyn Ann McLerie, Joanna Miles, Mary Murphy
Roles Josie
Rating61%
Linda Blair stars as a 14-year-old runaway who, after getting arrested one too many times, is sentenced to do time in a girls' juvenile detention center, which doubles as a reform school for the girls. Blair's character, Christine Parker, comes from an abusive home. Her father (played by Richard Jaeckel) beat her on a regular basis, which caused Chris to run away many times. Her mother (Kim Hunter) is just as troubled as Chris is; unfeeling, sitting in her recliner, watching television and smoking cigarettes all day, and in denial as to what her husband is doing. While the movie had a morality play tone, calling attention to the harsh conditions of juvenile detention centers, it also blamed society for Christine's downfall.
, 1h14Directed by Alf Kjellin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Shirley Jones, Mercedes McCambridge, Pamela Sue Martin, William Windom, Sissy Spacek, Carol Speed
Roles Tina
Rating63%
Anne Baldwin arrives at Huntington House, a maternity home for pregnant minors. The school's principal Doris McKenzie is initially reluctant to hire Baldwin, because she has no degree. In class, Baldwin soon finds out she is unable to get through the teens, of whom most are rebellious and aggressive. She constantly clashes with the school's newest student, 17-year-old Sara. Sara has been forced by her parents to enter the home and has been assigned the roommate of Gail, a model student who has a snobbish, dominant mother. Sara feels Baldwin is too old-fashioned, too introverted and does not know the meaning of love and sex.
Hit! (1973)
, 2h14Directed by Sidney J. Furie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Warren J. Kemmerling, Gwen Welles, Sid Melton
Roles Jeannie Allen
Rating60%
Un agent fédéral décide de venger la mort de sa fille, victime d'une overdose, en s'attaquant aux trafic d'héroïne.
, 1hDirected by Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Actors Tina Andrews, Paul Frees, Ernestine Wade
Roles Veronica (voice)
Rating62%
A guardian angel agrees to help Willie Mays win the National League Pennant if he agrees to take care of an orphan girl.
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Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998)
, 1h56Directed by Gregory Nava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical theatre, Documentary, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon, Larenz Tate, Paul Mazursky, Pamela Reed
Roles Writer
Rating64%
Lymon was thirteen years old when the teenage group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers erupted from radios and jukeboxes with their 1956 hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" and appeared in the movie Rock, Rock, Rock (1956).